One of the central points in Manufacturing Consent was that journalists primarily use official government press releases and insider access that they’re spoon fed for good behavior making it easy af for most journalists who work for media outlets whose primary purpose is to sell advertising and be complicit in capitalism and never step out of that paradigm or they’d be fired from CNN or the NYTimes or whoever they work for. Even war correspondents just ride around with our military.

That’s one reason I think the US has the most brainwashed population on earth. We are constantly bombarded by the most effective longtime propaganda machine on earth and unlike China and North Korea where compliance is fear based Americans genuinely can’t see through it. Challenging the literally earth destroying status quo doesn’t even occur to Americans, even deep into their most private thoughts.

Church.

Yet peeps defend FOX News. Am I missin sumthin?

By peeps do you mean me?

I believe he's challenging your assertion that Americans are brainwashed by pointing out the political division in the country.

Just because you hate each other doesn’t mean you’re that different.

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Not you, specifically. Anyone who follows an outlet that readily admits it's entertainment yet claims to be informed with that as their primary source of information has issues; especially when they see the complicit capitalist paradigm (as you point out) yet keep watching it. Sorta makes them complicit, too, yes?

That's some vague **** that sounds like it has a hidden gotcha embedded.

Are you calling me an ******* or not? I follow stories on regular media outlets. I just keep it in mind what they’re really there for.

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